SANTA CLARA, Calif.-GiantBear Inc. launched AudioCub, which allows subscribers to request and receive information from the wireless Internet through audio delivery, the company said."AudioCub gives wireless carrier subscribers one more delivery service-audio-that will empower all cellular and PCS customers with the wireless Web regardless...
The prospect of playing video games on wireless devices is becoming a factor in the entertainment content being developed for the wireless Internet movement.Ignition Corp., founded by several former McCaw Cellular and Microsoft Corp. executives, has backed the idea through its involvement in UIEvolution,...
After months of relative silence, Ignition Corp. has begun making noise again, providing its mentoring and funding proficiencies to two more companies.The most recent is Avogadro, launched this week with the vision of combining business-to-business, mobility and Internet technologies into a new communications service....
As it initiates a beta launch of its wireless Internet solution and wireless portal this week, YadaYada Inc. is preparing to go head to head with competitors OmniSky Corp. and GoAmerica Inc.Calling itself a wireless version of America Online, YadaYada uses the same equipment...
NEW YORK-A 6-percent average summer dip in the price of shares in American Tower Corp., Crown Castle International, Pinnacle Towers Inc., SBA Communications and SpectraSite Communications also reflected "a shift of investors out of telecom into what are perceived to be faster growth areas,"...
CLAREMONT, Calif.-WolfeTech Corp. announced it has made available a version of its PocketGenie Internet-based information service for the Motorola Inc. T900 Talkabout two-way interactive pager.PocketGenie services include stock quotes, weather forecasts, news, sports scores, driving directions and other services.In other news, WolfeTech introduced an...
CHICAGO-When Bridget Glavaz touched down in Los Angeles recently, she pulled out her handheld computer, a Palm VII, and started addressing two critical issues. She needed directions to her appointment downtown, so she logged onto Mapquest.com. Equally important, she wanted a hot hazelnut mocha,...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company's Microelectronics business, which will be spun off into a separate company next...
BARCELONA, Spain-Nortel Networks announced new Internet Protocol core network, base station and management offerings as part of its `Wings of Light' strategy last week at the UMTS 2000 show in Barcelona, Spain.The latest additions to the company's portfolio of wireless Internet solutions are expected...
CAIRO, Egypt-Africast introduced a free wireless Internet access and messaging service. Mobile users can access Africast Mobile by creating a profile on the Africast.com site, allowing the latest news headlines and personal information to be sent via short message service to digital cell phones...
SOMERS, N.Y.-IBM Corp. announced a number of software developers have chosen its WebSphere Everyplace Suite as the platform on which they will extend their applications to various wireless devices."Combining the strengths of IBM technology with leading applications, software developers are key to completing the...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. hopes to leverage the growing interest in wireless Internet service for the company to remain viable and turn around its troubled past.It is doing so by supporting the growing interest in wirelessly enabling personal digital assistants. Glenayre is taking the lead...
Wireless service providers looking to reduce customer churn have relied on potential revenue-losing means to keep customers loyal, including offering discounted service plans with contracts or giving away new phones when customers sign on for a certain time.Fremont, Calif.-based Ettache.com said its account aggregation...
Just less than a year after bursting onto the wireless Internet scene with a wireless solution for the Palm V, OmniSky Corp. this week is introducing a similar solution for the Handspring VisorPhone.The company also is unveiling version 2.0 of its service, which is...
MEXICO CITY-Telcel, Mexico's largest wireless operator, launched commercial wireless Internet services using Phone.com's Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) platform. The commercial service launch marks the mobile carrier's spinoff from parent company Telmex. Telcel will be part of America M
TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic wireless phones. But just like green tea, Panasonic's wireless phones have not achieved the same level of success in the...
For more than six months the mobile satellite industry has been trying to polish its image after the well-publicized failure of Iridium L.L.C. tarnished the reputation of all those involved in the industry.While Iridium shuffled in and out of bankruptcy court and deliberated with...
DALLAS-T-Speed Broadband Communications launched its high-speed wireless Internet access service in Dallas/Fort Worth, the company announced.The company said it is targeting small and medium-sized businesses, and it already has signed agreements with more than 50 office buildings throughout the area.T-Speed charges $50 per individual...
Leap Wireless International Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire PCS licenses in Eugene, Ore., and Fort Collins and Greeley, Colo., from American Wireless License Group L.L.C. The licenses, covering 700,000 potential customers, were the subject of a previous memorandum of understanding between the...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. launched WebMagic, a wireless Internet product that allows its cellular phone customers to access the Internet and receive e-mail messages.Dobson said the service will be offered to its customers in phases, beginning in the company's California and Texas markets. Customers...
SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle Corp. announced pending availability of complete middleware for developing and deploying wireless Internet content and applications services. The Oracle9i application server wireless edition leverages Oracle's portal-to-go technology and is targeted at carriers, consumer portals, application service providers and corporations, said Oracle.The new...
For the mobile commerce market to succeed in winning over consumers from the wired Internet and bricks-and-mortar space, it will have to be flexible in meeting consumer expectations, according to a recent report by the Aberdeen Group.The report, "Mobile Electronic Commerce: The New Economy on...
Following months of speculation, regulatory red tape and the seemingly elusive approval by the Federal Communications Commission that came Sept. 29, SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Mobility officially came together last week, announcing its joint venture now will be known as Cingular Wireless."Cingular is...
NEW YORK-Some 27 years after he placed the first "public portable cellular call," from Midtown Manhattan to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Martin Cooper said he is unsure "if we, as an industry, have grown up yet."Introduced at "Wireless World 2000" as the inventor...
